Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The terrible accident in Vermont again
| sharply calls attention to the necessity of a
safer plan for heating cars than that now in
general use.
Woman suffrage hat received b severe
| ''setback" in Washington territory, where
the Supreme court has declared the suffrage
law unconstitutional as conflicting with the
| organic law of the territory.
This evening the Housatonic Valley rail
road company's offer will be presented to
| the city government. It should be fairly
and fully discussed The more it is dis
eussed tho more fully will it's substantial
| character appear. 1t should not be rejected
on account of any vague fears, or unfounded
hopes that the city can do better.
The bill concerning the practice of dem
| tistry which has been introduced in the leg
| islature of this State should be passed 1t
forbids anyone practising who has not had
eighteen months instruction in an Office and
| attended at least one course of lectures,
who has not a certificate from dental college.
Twenty-six of the States have laws which
| make harder conditions than these.
A series of tests has recently been made
by DR.. Fischer, the well known German
chemist, showing that in ordinary domestic
stoves in use not more than 20 per cent of
fuel consumed is really utilized for warming
the rooms, whereas with stoves burning gas
so per cent and more of the possible effect
| is obtained. In a sugar manufactory at Els
| dorf, it is stated, no steam engines have been
| used for several years. Gas is made at
cost of about 10d. per 1000 cubic feet, and
is used for lighting and driving gas engines.
At the Essen works water gas is made at
cost of 4d to Sd. per 1000 cubic feet, and
| serves both for fire and lighting.
The progress of the coo operative communi-
| tv which is being established at Tennessee
| City, fifty miles from Memphis, will be
watched with interest. The Knights have
| bought tract of 120,0 acres, with an idle
iron furnace and some lands supposed to con-
tain iron ore, and they hope to get 1000
| families settled in the region in six months,
conducting business of various sorts on the
cooperative basis. Besides the furnace and
nail factory, brick machines with capaci-
| ty of 80, 900 bricks day have been bought,
and sash and blind factory is going up.
The city is to be incorporated at once, and a
city hall, public school and engine house
built. This is better than striking.
| The loss by fire in the month Of January
was above the average The loss in January
is often very serious and exceptionally large,
the average amount of destruction in the
United States and Canada for the past twelve
years in that month being about ten millions
| of dollars. Last month, however, was more
| than ordinarily severe, the loss reaching over
| eleven and one-half millions of dollars. This
enormous destruction has been exceeded by
that of only two or three Januaries since
| 1875. feature of the months record was
the exceptionally large number of fires where
the req orted loss was from 10000 upwards.
Another feature was the fact that more unin-
sured property was burned than usual.
Quail have multiplied 50 in California that
[ thew are a rrisauoa When the game law